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To: sea_urchin who wrote (25848)	10/4/2007 5:15:02 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81137

Re: the Shanghai Pact, signed on June 15 by Russia, China and four Central Asian nations between them, is the foundation of a Eurasian military-geostrategic alliance. The Shanghai Pact is more a modus vivendi between China and her neighbors than a NATO-like alliance... NATO has an integrated chain of command with a US Chief of Staff at the top --the very reason why France is still reluctant to join it. The Shanghai Pact is still a paper tiger... I don't think, for that matter, that the Russians will ever agree to a Chinese-controlled military alliance, but then again, precisely for that reason, the Shanghai Pact might prove more resilient than US-controlled NATO.... Gus